NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok a slight oxymoron in the title, in any case what would your opinion be on what the most origional nation name is in Nationstates. I personally have two favorites: -

"The Most Glorious Hack"
and
"I can't think of a name".
:lol:
And you?

Please don't pick your nation or your puppets

I restored a nation last night in the mod center that was called

"Thenationstatestoilet" which was different. I believe their motto was

"The best sound in the world is of a toilet flushing"

I'm hoping it was humor, seriously..lol :P

Assington is completely original! 8)

Who ese would dare?

Enerica though is not so origional.

Assington is completely original! 8)
SOrry mate, Assington is a small village in Suffolk, England between Sudbury and Colchester

I like Dontgonearthere, also Gaspode the Wonder Dog; but only because I like it in Pratchett - it rolls off the tongue nicely (sorry Gaspode!).

I know. But I didn't find that out until several months after I created this nation in NS.

So it still counts..... kinda.

Gaspode is good, Silly Mountain Walks, whatever happened to DuctTapeLand?

Tactical Grace is a very clever name.

Tactical Grace is a very clever name.

Stolen from Iain M Banks's "Excession" I believe. Not that that detracts from it's cleverness in any way - Mr Banks' ship names are allways clever-to-hillarious IMO.

Banks names are hilarious.
"I said I had a big stick"
"Give me the gun, then ask the question"

Look to windward has an entire chapter of these 2 random people (never named, nothing to do with the plot) discussing the various names.
Tactical Grace wouldn't surprise me at all if it came up.

I always thought "Albion Soviets" had a certain...something or other about it.

Tactical Grace is a very clever name.

so is celestial paranoia. Is it an original or one of banks' too?

Tactical Grace is a very clever name.

so is celestial paranoia. Is it an original or one of banks' too?
It's not one I remember, but then my memory...

I know. But I didn't find that out until several months after I created this nation in NS.

So it still counts..... kinda.Well ya can stop telling people its original then! Thought none of us could read a road atlas did you? :wink:

*Hides in corner having proved beyond doubt that he is completely anal :oops: *

DP

TP

Well ya can stop telling people its original then! Thought none of us could read a road atlas did you?

*Hides in corner having proved beyond doubt that he is completely anal *

well.... it's the only one of my nations that isn't purposefully ripped off something else..... :P

Well ya can stop telling people its original then! Thought none of us could read a road atlas did you?

*Hides in corner having proved beyond doubt that he is completely anal *

well.... it's the only one of my nations that isn't purposefully ripped off something else..... :P

*does doubletake* whappened?

I think more than a few are - mine is

my nation is named after my cat.

BBC News - an interesting, if slightly odd, name

Here are some of Banks ship names. (several were thought of by the Banks fanzines.
GCU Nervous Energy
GCU Prosthetic Conscience
GSV The Ends Of Invention [ex-Culture]
GSV Eschatologist (temporary name)
GSV Irregular Apocalyse
GSV No More Mr Nice Guy
GSV Determinist
GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul
LSV Profit Margin
ROU Trade Surplus
ROU Revisionist
Clipper Screw Loose
GCU Flexible Demeanour
GCU Just Read The Instructions
GCU Of Course I Still Love You
GOU Limiting Factor
GSV Cargo Cult
GSV Little Rascal
GSV So Much For Subtlety
GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
GSV Youthful Indiscretion
LOU Gunboat Diplomat
dROU Zealot
Superlifter Kiss My Ass
Superlifter Prime Mover

GSV Bad for Business
GCU Arbitrary
GCU Cantankerous
GCU Only Slightly Bent
GCU I Thought He Was With You
GCU Space Monster
GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
GCU Big Sexy Beast
GCU Never Talk To Strangers
GCU Funny, It Worked Last Time...
GCU Boo!
GCU Ultimate Ship The Second
GCU It'll Be Over By Christmas

GCU Different Tan (Mountain Class)
GCU Fate Amenable To Change (River Class)
GCU Gray Area
GCU It's Character Forming
GCU Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge)
GCU Problem Child (Troubadour)
GCU Reasonable Excuse
GCU Recent Convert
GCU Tactical Grace (Escarpment Class)
GCU Unacceptable Behaviour
GCV Steely Glint (Plains)

Highpoint (ulterior)
Shoot Them Later (eccentric;ulterior)

LOU Attitude Adjuster (Killer)
ROU Killing Time (Torturer Class)
dROU Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class)
Systems Vehicles

GSV Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (Plate)
GSV Death and Gravity
GSV Ethics Gradient (Range)
GSV Honest Mistake
GSV Limivourous (Ocean)
GSV No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler, ex Equator)
GSV Quietly Confident (Plate)
GSV Sleeper Service (Plate)
GSV Uninvited Guest
GSV Use Psychology
GSV What Is The Answer and Why?
GSV Wisdom Like Silence (Continent)
GSV Yawning Angel (Range)
GSV Zero Gravitas
LSV Misophist
LSV Serious Callers Only (Tundra)
MSV Not Invented Here (Desert)

Appeal To Reason
Break Even
Long View
Peace Makes Plenty
Sober Counsel
Within Reason

Kiss the Blade (Battle Cruiser)
Frightspear
Furious Purpose
Riptalon
Wingclipper
SacSlicer II
Xenoclast

(MBU) Full Refund (Empire Class- Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
Superlifter Charitable View (Cliff)
Cruise Ship Just Passing Through
Added Value
I Blame Your Mother
I Blame My Mother
Heavy Messing - ex-culture ship

Just Testing
Xenophobe
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
What Are The Civilian Applications?
Congenital Optimist
Size Isn't Everything
Sweet and Full of Grace


Sorry, it's a huge list, but the topic was slow anyway, and I thought that these are good. Tactical is there too.
There are many ships in look to Windward that weren't named, but I can't find a list anywhere.

14,000 odd years... it seems like we only just got here. And definitely the best flag. Yessir, it's us.

Moozimoo's is best flag and name. I wish I had a cat named Moozimoo.

Decadence and Opulance was a great name while that nation was still going... :lol:

I was going to call a nation Burt Bacharach once, but that was taken - so kudos to whoever got there first. Kinks and Existential Angst were snatched up as well.

14,000 odd years... it seems like we only just got here. And definitely the best flag. Yessir, it's us.

Wasn't Bora Horza Gobuchul a person, not a ship? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Moozimoo's is best flag and name. I wish I had a cat named Moozimoo.

you flatter me! :)

Decadence and Opulance was a great name while that nation was still going... :lol:

I was going to call a nation Burt Bacharach once, but that was taken - so kudos to whoever got there first. Kinks and Existential Angst were snatched up as well.

Burt Bacharach was ALREADY TAKEN?!!!!

Indeed, but Tamla Motown was available.

14,000 odd years... it seems like we only just got here. And definitely the best flag. Yessir, it's us.

Wasn't Bora Horza Gobuchul a person, not a ship? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Nothing to do with changers. Look up Vela X. This was our system. Our ancestors fled. Some made it to this planet. We came, we saw, we corrupted, or perhaps we took up with the wrong women.

Assington is completely original! 8)
SOrry mate, Assington is a small village in Suffolk, England between Sudbury and Colchester

Whoa, I wouldn't want to live there.